Re: A question for people with English OS


On May 8, 2007, at 12:21 AM, Harry Kakueki wrote:

On 5/7/07, Roseanne Zhang <roseanne@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Harry Kakueki wrote:
> Can you view Japanese documents on the internet with an English OS
> without special settings or is it garbled text?
> This may seem like a silly question but I have always used a Japanese
> OS so I do not know.
>
> Is it just about the browser? Or is this a thing of the past?
>
> Harry

The user/reader machine needs to install Chinese/Japanese fonts to see
them, otherwise, they would be all question marks. I am currently
working on a machine without those font installed, therefore, I cannot
read any Chinese etc... :(

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OK. I guess I get it.
It's about the fonts. That was pointed out earlier but I missed it.

Thank you.

Harry

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This is also true. If you don't have any fonts for a particular language, you won't be able to view it. Generally speaking, those that need them do have them, or can get them. They're included on the install disk with Windows XP and Vista and OS X installs them by default. Both of these OS's take internationalization very seriously. Linux/BSD/other unixes are more of a mixed bag but support is there.

@Michal
Like it or not, xhtml is here to stay. It is actually very easy because you don't have so many attributes crowding your elements. Lots of software to validate it. It's intended to be a form of XML so it uses CSS style sheets.

XHTML and CSS are really really easy to learn.

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